Propaganda does not deceive people;
it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

Political propaganda is cult brainwashing

A successful induction by a destructive cult
displaces a person's former identity and replaces it with a new one. That new identity may not be one that the person would
have freely chosen under her own volition.

Nothing is unusual about office holders, political parties and agency bureaucracies taking liberties with facts, when they
frame their case and sell their policies and programs. But how many people look upon this process as one designed, not to
persuade you; but to indoctrinate you into accepting causes that are not in your own self interest. The techniques of agenda
shaping and peer pressure guiding is sophisticated and Sub-Rosa in intent. According to Margaret Thaler Singer, “Thought Reform is not a mysterious process. It is the systematic application of psychological and social influence techniques in
an organized programmatic way within a constructed and managed environments. The goal is to produce specific attitudinal and
behavioral changes. The changes occur incrementally without its being patently visible to those undergoing the process that
their attitudes and behavior are being changed a step at a time according to the plan of those directing the program.”

1) Keep the person unaware of what is going on and how she or he is being changed a step at a time.

2) Control the person’s social and/or physical environment; especially control the person’s time.

3) Systematically create a sense of powerlessness in the person.

4) Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments and experiences in such a way as to inhibit behavior that reflects the person’s
former social identity.

5) Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments, and experiences in order to promote learning the group’s ideology
or belief system and group-approved behaviors.

6) Put forth a closed system of logic and an authoritarian structure that permits no feedback and refuses to be modified
except by leadership approval or executive order.

Since Singer claims that techniques to achieve power through mind control are readily comprehended, the key inquiry is to understand the
reason why the general public is so unaware of the assault upon their thought process? The factual historic record leads one
to conclude that the limited and select group of participants that seek and attain positions of influence, share one crucial
trait. Namely, a desire to preach their adherence to the “Will of the People”; while they exhort democratic rule,
their actions conform to governance by the privileged few. Citing the significance of 1984 we find the answer: “Orwell
reasoned that if a government could control all media and communication, meanwhile forcing citizens to speak in a politically-
controlled jargon, this would blunt independent thinking. If thought could be controlled, then rebellious actions against
a regime could be prevented.” Because of the nature of lust for power, moral means to achieve political objectives
becomes irrelevant; thus, the motive to conceal real intentions from the citizens. The Sub-Rosa character of the elites is
not who they are, but the actual hidden goals they achieve with their policies and control of the State.

Singer concludes: “Orwell’s genius centered on seeing how language, not physical force would be used to
manipulate minds. In fact the growing evidence in the behavioral sciences is that a smiling Big Brother has greater power
to influence thought and decision-making that a visibly threatening person.”

Now review the following Chart that identifies the progression from individual education to mass control:

Propaganda leading to Indoctrination has the ultimate objective of Thought Reform.

While many citizens would contest overt indoctrination, most accept that propaganda is a fact of life. But how many are
even aware of the final stage - Thought Reform? And even more important, how many are willing to admit to themselves that this conclusive level effectively eliminates all
individuality - subjugating each person to endless servitude to the cult regime run by approved elites. Yes, the State is
a Cult. The World Book Encyclopedia explains that "traditionally, the term cult referred to any form of worship or
ritual observance." We have been conditioned to propaganda - under ability to change - to promote the group nation.
Then we have been subjected to indoctrination - under focus of body of knowledge - explicitly designed to inculcate
organizational values. And finally we have been manipulated into Thought Reform - type of relationship - to accept
group attempts to retain control over people forever.

These techniques are all designed to create and maintain worship to a strong authority figure. We are told to accept that
the State is the absolute embodiment of authority. The “Supreme Being” has been replaced with the coercive totalitarian
temporal cult, that requires homage, tribute and obedience. The ritual of prearranged elections orchestrates an opera of musical
chairs that has the fat lady singing before the first candidate enters the race. The franchise has become a fallacy, the group
mission protects the government sect and the existence of independent conduct turns into an illusion. That is the purpose
of Thought Reform.

“There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of
these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.” -
F. Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Cults want wealth and power for the leadership, to be supplied by members. Government conforms to this model. Both
employ the following:

Authority - claims on members' time, talents, bodies, or property to meet group needs.

Robert Lifton and Mikhael Heller conducted studies on Thought Reform. Today we see those applications in our society. The miracle becomes the utopia that
politicians promise from their policies administered by an all persuasive government. The mystery incorporates an obsession
with secrecy, limited access of forged accounts, with significant news going unreported. And authority being centralized with
state power supreme, with the destruction of competing political ideologies.

Those who will resist the characterization of the State as a Cult, demonstrate the success of their own, Reform
Thought, re-education. Singer may not be a favorite of those who remain loyal to the principles of Freedom and liberty.
However, the outline, progression and methods used by elites to rule, shed much needed light on the nature of the sinister
plan that has been used to control our political institutions and conquer our society. The real miracle was our 1776 Revolution.
The true mystery is our reliance upon divine providence. And the only legitimate authority comes from God, and resides in
the People, who are faithful to His law.